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1949 in literature
See also:
1948 in literature
,
other events of 1949
,
1950 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
Events
Death of a Salesman
, a play by
Arthur Miller
The Sheltering Sky[?]
by
Paul Bowles
is published. In
2001
, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the
American Modern Library
.
New Books
The Aleph[?]
-
Jorge Luis Borges
Alien Land[?]
-
Willard W. Savoy[?]
The Angry Wife[?]
-
Pearl S. Buck
Beneath The Sky[?]
-
Alfred Q. Jarrette[?]
Beyond Earth's Gates[?]
-
C. L. Moore
Cannibal[?]
-
John Hawkes[?]
Crooked House
-
Agatha Christie
The Egyptian
-
Mika Waltari
The Golden Sequence[?]
-
Martha E. Von Almedingen[?]
The Heat of the Day[?]
-
Elixabeth Bowen[?]
King of the Wind[?]
-
Marguerite Henry[?]
Let Love Come Last[?]
-
Taylor Caldwell
Love in a Cold Climate
-
Nancy Mitford
Male and Female[?]
-
Margaret Mead
The Man With the Golden Arm[?]
-
Nelson Algren
Men of Maize[?]
-
Miguel Angel Asturias[?]
The Miracles of the Red Altar Cloth[?]
-
Hermann L. Hunter[?]
Nineteen Eighty-Four
-
George Orwell
Pride's Castle[?]
-
Frank Yerby[?]
A Rage To Live[?]
-
John O'Hara
The Second Sex[?]
-
Simone de Beauvoir
Shane[?]
-
Jack Schaefer[?]
The Sheltering Sky[?]
-
Paul Bowles
A Town Like Alice[?]
-
Nevil Shute
Trouble with Harry[?]
-
Jack Story[?]
Births
Deaths
June 10
-
Sigrid Undset
, Nobel Prize winning author
April 24
-
Willa Cather
, author
May 6
-
Maurice Maeterlinck
, Belgian poet & playwright
Awards
Newberry Medal
for
children's literature
:
Marguerite Henry[?]
,
King of the Wind
Nobel Prize for literature
-
William Faulkner
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
:
Arthur Miller
,
Death of a Salesman
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
:
James Gould Cozzens[?]
,
Guard of Honor
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
:
Peter Viereck[?]
,
Terror and Decorum
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